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2000-PresentUpdated: 07 December 2007. Nell Lukosvich Benton, MA '08, is the associate editor of World Oil. In this position she will manage World Oil Online and edit content for World Oil magazine. She is also charged with developing new interactive platforms for World Oil Online. World Oil is published by Gulf Publishing Co., the leading publisher to the oil and gas industry. Added: Nov. 12, 2009Marlene Neill, MA '07, was elected chair-elect for the Southwest District of PRSA for 2010 at the PRSA International Conference in San Diego on Nov. 8. The Southwest District represents 14 chapters in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas, and serves as a link between local PRSA chapters and national leadership. Neill is an accredited member of PRSA and serves as a lecturer at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Added: Nov. 12, 2009 Adam Wisneski, BJ '07, is one of three members of the Tulsa World staff who were honored Thursday with the Mental Health Association in Tulsa's 2009 Communication Award at the organization's annual awards ceremony. Wisneski along with Omer Gillham and Deon J. Hampton were recognized for their work on "Suicide: Hidden Epidemic," a three-day series that appeared Oct. 4-6 in the World and also featured online multimedia content. Wisneski produces video content and photos for tulsaworld.com. Added: Nov. 6, 2009 Katie Fretland, BJ '08, will join the Chicago News Cooperative, a new multi-platform news venture that will offer public service reporting about Chicago for The New York Times, the city's public television station and on the Internet. She will work with Dan Mihalopoulos, BJ '96, on the city beat. Added: Nov. 2, 2009 Stephen Bell, BJ '09, is the new press assistant for Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) in his D.C. office. Bell, a native of Louisiana, previously interned for Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.). Added: Oct. 29, 2009 Blythe Terrell, BJ '05, is the city editor of the Steamboat (Colo.) Pilot & Today, effective Oct. 2. Added: Oct. 26, 2009 Ingrid Ahlgren, MA '05, and Alexander Liu were married Oct. 24 at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan. She is a freelance writer. Added: Oct. 26, 2009 Allison Mang, BJ '07, is an administrative assistant/office manager with the Tuberculosis Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health in San Francisco. Added: Oct. 19, 2009 Rebecca Norris, BJ '07, MA '08, is a strategist in the digital division of OMD in New York. Added: Oct. 19, 2009 Marissa Sharkey, BJ '08, has joined Callahan Creek, a Lawrence, Kan.-based marketing communications agency. Added: Sept. 28, 2009 Ben Kleine, BJ '09, has joined the Peabody (Kan.) Gazette-Bulletin as a sports writer and general assignment reporter. Added: Sept. 28, 2009 Amanda Kushner, BJ '09, is the new Downtown Journal reporter in Minneapolis. Added: Sept. 15, 2009 Brian Thompson, MA '09, adviser to Flagler College's student newspaper, The Gargoyle, has won the 2009 Ken Nordin Award in research from College Media Advisors, an organization of student media professionals. Thompson's winning paper, "Exploring 'Connectivity' at the College Newspaper: Can It Help Explain the Success of the Collegiate Press?," was the thesis for his master's degree in journalism. Flagler College is located in St. Augustine, Fla. Added: Sept. 11, 2009
David Ubben, BJ '09, is The Oklahoman's beat writer for the University of Oklahoma football and basketball programs. Added: Aug. 19, 2009 Aja Junior, BJ '09, is the editorial manager for the Urban Tulsa Weekly in Oklahoma. Added: Aug. 18, 2009 Nicole Sweeney Etter, BJ '01, and her husband welcomed daughter Evelyn Rose to the world on April 3. Nicole works as a senior writer/assistant editor for Marquette University's Office of Marketing and Communication. Added: Aug. 18, 2009 MSNBC.com has acquired EveryBlock, a Chicago-based Web site that offers news and information down to the neighborhood level in 15 cities, the two companies announced on Aug. 17. Until last month the startup, run by Washingtonpost.com veteran Adrian Holovaty, BJ '01, was supported by a two-year, $1.1 million grant from the Knight Foundation. Added: Aug. 18, 2009 Bill Reiter, BJ '00, and Laurie Mansfield Reiter, MA '01, are the parents of Madeline Maureen Reiter, born July 18. Both work for The Kansas City Star: Bill as the sports enterprise reporter, Laurie as the editor of Ink and inkkc.com. Added: Aug. 4, 2009 Karl Grubaugh, MA '00, was named the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's 2008 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. He serves as the adviser of The Granite Bay Gazette at Granite Bay (Calif.) High School. Added: July 22, 2009 Scott Schaefer, BJ '04, and Sarah Hill, BJ '93, won a national Edward R. Morrow Award in the feature reporting category for "The Magic Tree," part of the "Sarah's Stories" series. The Radio-Television News Directors Association, the industry's leading trade organization, sponsors the competition. Both Schaefer and Hill serve as adjunct professors at the Missouri School of Journalism and work at KOMU-TV. Added: July 20, 2009
Pamela Riemenschneider, BJ '02, a veteran writer, photographer and videographer for The Packer, on July 7 became the editor for Produce Merchandising magazine, a Vance Publishing Corp. sister publication. She will continue to write and shoot photos for The Packer, focusing on stories with retail angles. Added: July 13, 2009 Abby Callard, BJ '09, has been selected for the prestigious internship at the Smithsonian magazine in Washington, D.C. She was one of approximately 150 applicants for the six-months-paid position. While in School, Callard won the Don Romero Writing Award and was a Discovery Fellow and a Walter Williams Scholar. She also worked for Slate.com while a participant in the School's Washington Program. Added: May 29, 2009 Beth Lauver, BJ '03, is the new director of the Respect Life Apostolate in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Added: May 28, 2009 Miun Seo Gleeson, BJ '03, is a senior communications specialist for a national regulatory organization in Kansas City. She is also a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, pursuing her doctoral degree in English and history. Added: May 18, 2009 Sean McDonnell, BJ '05, will graduate magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in June. He has accepted a clerkship with the Federal District Court in Chicago following his admission to the bar. Added: May 7, 2009 |
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